"Sometimes it's necessary to be cruel to be kind."
This topic is important to so many disciplines - in multiple meanings of that word, "discipline"
Thanks for sharing some of the other contexts these practices come up in! Martial arts does several versions of this. We learn to take advice from teachers and senior students gracefully. We learn to give advice earnestly and empathically. Constant exposure to these exercises - when to give adjustments and corrections in public vs. discreetly, how to bury ego, how to challenge your practice partner so they will stand a chance against a real opponent, it all builds up from a young age. It's such a great way of reinforcing how to keep oneself in the growth mindset. People who can accept and incorporate constructive criticism can improve. Those who cannot... ?
"Sometimes it's necessary to be cruel to be kind."
This topic is important to so many disciplines - in multiple meanings of that word, "discipline"
Thanks for sharing some of the other contexts these practices come up in! Martial arts does several versions of this. We learn to take advice from teachers and senior students gracefully. We learn to give advice earnestly and empathically. Constant exposure to these exercises - when to give adjustments and corrections in public vs. discreetly, how to bury ego, how to challenge your practice partner so they will stand a chance against a real opponent, it all builds up from a young age. It's such a great way of reinforcing how to keep oneself in the growth mindset. People who can accept and incorporate constructive criticism can improve. Those who cannot... ?